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Slavery & Abolition
A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
Volume 41, 2020 - Issue 4
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Review Essay

Slavery’s legacies, slavery’s futures: new horizons in the study of slavery

Runaway genres: the global afterlives of slavery, by Yogita Goyal, New York, New York University Press, 2019, 280 pp., $89, ISBN 9781479829590The new slave narrative: the battle over representations of contemporary slavery, by Laura T. Murphy, New York, Columbia University Press, 2019, 320 pp., $90, ISBN 9780231188258Fugitive testimony: on the visual logic of slave narratives, by Janet Neary, New York, Fordham University Press, 2017, 222 pp., £22.99, ISBN 9780823272891

 

Notes on Contributor

Jonathan D.S. Schroeder is in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7Al, UK. Email: [email protected]

Notes

1 For an important study (and one of the first) on this generation of black artists, see Huey Copeland, Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013).

2 Neary has also recently edited Conditions of The Present: Selected Essays (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018) of Lindon Barrett.

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